flitter
IPA: fɫˈɪtɝ
noun
- A fluttering movement
- A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Hyarotis.
- (science fiction) A small aircraft or spacecraft.
- A small perceptible feeling
- (archaic Southern US, Caribbean) Pronunciation spelling of fritter. [A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.]
verb
- To scatter in pieces.
- To move about rapidly and nimbly.
- To move quickly from one condition or location to another.
- To flutter or quiver.
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Examples of "flitter" in Sentences
- I looked a lot like Ellie Mae, except my chest was flat as a flitter.
- Through the forest of blades banded demoiselles flitter, catching the sun.
- An excellent phrase: “On Kite Hill, children flitter about like butterflies while their parents sit patiently”
- The churned ground passing under the flitter was a nightmare of broken ridges, knife-sharp pinnacles, and pitted holes.
- On Kite Hill, children flitter about like butterflies while their parents sit patiently under perfectly blue skies, pleasantly oblivious to the shouts of joy and rings of laughter.
- I was a "flitter" of the first water, and after I had been in Fort Worth for a very short while I became possessed of a desire to see something of the far famed border towns along the Rio Grande frontier.
- Being Dead cannot be locked into one specific genre, but seems to flitter over them all, one minute taking you to the horrors of their deaths and decay, the next dabbling in the moving love story that kept them together for so long.
- I can't count the number of times I've heard people say, "I don't read science fiction" while clutching a Michael Crichton novel, and I've heard "I don't read fantasy" from a zillion teenagers who inevitably flitter off to the stores when a new Twilight book hits the stands.
- As a concept, it can easily flitter away, since it has no grounding through a transformative search; note, not a search for transformation but a transforming search; not where the end result is clear beforehand and one only has to find the best means, but a transforming search.
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